Celebrating Words and Authors Together

Kirkcudbright Book Festival invites you to experience our annual literary festival. Together, we will celebrate local and national voices, local history, Scottish culture, children’s authors, crime fiction, nature and the enviroment and much more through 20 plus individual and inspiring events over four days.

Our wish is to be an accessible festival and we will do everything reasonable to address requests for assistance when you book events so that you can enjoy your experience as much as possible.

If you would like to find out more about the Festival’s background and aims, please click on this link: About the Kirkcudbright Book Festival

The venues for all of the events will be in Kirkcudbright Town, within walking distance of each other, enabling you to book and get to multiple events.

The 2026 Festival programme will be launched on the 1st January, 2026.

Gift Vouchers are available to purchase now for your family and friends, they will love the experiences you will gift them! They will be valid for any of the 2026 Book Festival events.

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